Today is the official 2 week mark from the 1st infusion and the official day when I could start having some hair loss. I woke up this morning with a piece of hair in my mouth and thought "Well, there it goes". However, turns out my hair is not falling out in clumps yet. There has been an uptick in individual pieces of hair falling out, but nothing drastic. This is just another weird event with cancer treatment, the waiting for your hair to fall out. Many others who have lost their hair tell me it comes out in clumps usually when they were in the shower. This makes the shower an interesting experience. I checked my hands multiple times while shampooing. When there was nothing in my hands I decided to sing this to my hair:
No baldness yet, but the hair clock is ticking.What is also weird is I can feel my hair sitting on top of my head. A sensation that I previously was unaware of. Overthinking this much? You betcha.
Also, went for another run last night. Running makes me happy : )
Was thinking about you today and thought I'd corroborate your 'feeling your hair' story. It is SO true! Strange that 30-odd years had passed and I'd never felt my hair in my scalp before. As for your clumpage...mine just slowly thinned and thinned til I looked like the old man in Poltergeist - then I shaved it. No one should look like him!! A nice tip was that I wore a fleece hat around the house because it contained the hair nicely without leaving a Hansel and Gretel style hair trail around the house :) Glad you're still running!!! - Stacey (the MICU chick!)
Was thinking about you today and thought I'd corroborate your 'feeling your hair' story. It is SO true! Strange that 30-odd years had passed and I'd never felt my hair in my scalp before. As for your clumpage...mine just slowly thinned and thinned til I looked like the old man in Poltergeist - then I shaved it. No one should look like him!! A nice tip was that I wore a fleece hat around the house because it contained the hair nicely without leaving a Hansel and Gretel style hair trail around the house :) Glad you're still running!!! - Stacey (the MICU chick!)
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